European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 4, 19b8 the stars and stripes Paga 3 . Jobless rate Rose 0.2% in May Washington a the nation s civilian unemployment Rale Rose to 5.6 percent in May Only its second in crease in 20 months As 518,000 fewer americans were Al work Lawn in the pre Vious month the government said Fri Day. The 0.2 percentage Point increase from a 14-Ycar-Low jobless Rale of 5.4 percent was accompanied by an increase of 173,000 in the number of people listed by the labor department As officially unemployed. The department said the labor Force those either holding jobs or actively looking for Ihm shrunk by 363,000 to 122.7 million. The figures Are based on a monthly Survey of the nation s households. The rate is seasonally adjusted to discount for periodic predictable influences on the calculations. A separate Survey of employer payrolls showed the Economy creating 210,000 jobs in May but lha was Down from an average Job growth Over the last year of 250,000 a month. Almost All of the payroll Job increase look place in the service producing Sec Lor said Janet l. Norwood the com missioner of labor stall sties. Norwood old he congressional joint economic committee that Job growth in business services which has accounted for one in eight new jobs Over the six year economic expansion has slowed to an average of 15,000 in each of the last three months compared with an average monthly gain of 35,000-40.000 in 1987. Manufacturing employment grew by Only 16,000 in May after a 45,000-Job gain in april. Construction employment fell by 16,000 following a Rise of 157,000 from january through april. The 0.2 percentage Point drop in april s jobless Rale the first since october s Small  percentage Point Rise and a match to the 0.2 percent gain re corded in september 1986 had been propelled largely by Assembly line hiring As manufacturers tried to keep up with the surging foreign demand for Ameri can products. Norwood called May s 16,000 new factory jobs no real  but she said thai both the machinery and Metal products industries had registered Job growth Over the month. The two Export influenced industries have paced the gains in manufacturing Over the last year along with electrical equipment priming and publishing chemicals and rubber and plastic prod  the rebound in manufacturing has been accompanied by Strong growth in wholesale Trade which added 25,000 jobs last month. Over the last year the labor depart ment said such employment has climbed by 275.000, three fourths of it in durable goods distribution. Meanwhile employment in finance insurance and real estate fell by 10,000 after a 2,000-Job drop in april. The financial Industry which includes Banks and brokerages had been one of the strongest areas of Job growth through much of the recovery but has last a total of 10,000 jobs since january. The biggest area of Job growth last month was health services with 35,000 new jobs a reflection of the fact that the american population is gradually aging. While the household Survey on which the jobless Rale is based showed a seasonally adjusted decline of 518,000 peo ple at work the unadjusted figures showed an increase of More than 300,000. Summary Salute a photo Secretary of state George Shutlz ends a press conference at nato head quarters in Brussels thursday Wilh Salute to president Reagan and Saviel general Secretary Mikhail Norbacher for their efforts to improve superpower relations. Shutlz briefed the allies on the Moscow Summit. Judge rejects Barbie s Appeal of conviction Paris up the presiding judge at France s court of cassation rejected an Appeal Friday by for Mer Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie known As the Butcher of  of his conviction for crimes against humanity and confirmed his life prison term. French advocate general Emily Roben acting for the state on thursday asked presiding judge Jean la Doux s panel to reaffirm the july 4 conviction and sentence handed Down to Barbie 74, at the Rhone Assize court in Lyon. Barbie was chief of the Gestapo the nazis secret police in the Southern City during world War ii. Tesla Mony showed Barbie deposed hundreds of jews to nazi death Camps and ordered the torture of captured resistance members. Robert flatly rejected the Appeal. The court of cassation is France s highest court. Barbie was not present at the Appeal hearing. He remained in his prison cell in Lyon and was rep resented by his attorney. The attorney Daniel Baudin said thursday there were procedural flaws in the 1987 trial pointing out that Barbie twice was judged before in 1952 and 1954. Baudin also claimed there was a theatrical Clement to the 1987 proceedings that invalidated them. Burdin also raised what he said were discrepancies in the final form of the verdict and the alleged failure to address the claim that Barbie acted on orders. Robert had conceded thursday there were gaps in French Law on War crimes but he said parliament should address them. The regrettable errors in the trial of Barbie were not sufficient to invalidate the judgment he said you will end thus a historic trial that allowed principled solutions to be found for the gravest crimes those attacking the fundamental rights of the human person Robert said. Barbie was dubbed the Butcher of Lyon for his wartime brutality. Vietnam reports having data on 32 More mias Bangkok Thailand up vietnamese officials told a . Military team they have preliminary information or remains in 32 More cases of americans missing since the Vietnam War the team Leader said Friday. We had a positive and productive meeting focusing on the Issue of americans missing from the Indochina period said la. Col. Paul Mather who headed the five Man team that returned Friday from a three Day visit to Hanoi Vietnam. Mather in a statement released by the . Embassy in Bangkok said the vietnamese reported they Are now investigating 32 instances in which they have received information or remains which could be associated with missing  Kohl to visit Moscow Bonn up West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will visit Moscow in october and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will come to Bonn next Spring a West German spokesman said thursday. Mather who is a Bangkok based officer of the . Joint casualty Resolution Center responsible for determining he Fate of the missing americans said the vietnamese investigations were still in preliminary stages. No conclusions can be drawn at this Lime he said. Mather said his team provided the vietnamese with specific information on other cases of missing americans and reviewed Progress in the efforts to resolve the Fate of the 1,774 americans still missing in action in Vietnam or off its coasts. The meeting was the fifth round of technical talks on mias since the United states and Vietnam agreed to renew cooperation last August. Since then Vietnam has turned Over 52 sets of remains believed to be those of missing americans despite Viet namese charges that the United slates was not living up to the August agreement. In return for vietnamese cooperation its. Presidential envoy Gen. John Vessey agreed that the United slates would address the urgent humanitarian concerns of  since then private american charities have provided supplies to help disabled vietnamese. Vietnam however has said in also expects to receive official . Government Aid something the Reagan administration has said it has no plans to provide. Last month the United states rejected a vietnamese request for food Aid for famine stricken provinces in Northern Vietnam Bob Newhart show character actress Dies Lacuna Niguel Calif. A Florida Friebus who played the title character s Mother on the 1950s series the Many loves of doric Gitlis and a group therapy patient on the Bob Nettia Rushow has did shewa$79, Friebus who died Friday was a Veteran of numer Ous stage productions on the East coast before Corning to los Angeles in 19s5. She portrayed the dimwit cd sweater knitting mrs. Bakerman on the Bob Mcwhan show during its 1972-78 run